British Columbia

Video shows salmon injured by unlivable water temperatures after heatwave

29/07/21

Author:

Hallie Golden

Link:

The Guardian

Red lesions and white fungus on the salmons’ bodies are the result of high water temperatures and stress. Photograph: Conrad Gowell/Courtesy of Columbia Riverkeeper

July 27, 2021

A conservation group recorded the video after a heatwave in the Pacific north-west on a day when water temperatures breached 70F

Salmon in the Columbia River were exposed to unlivable water temperatures that caused them to break out in angry red lesions and white fungus in the wake of the Pacific north-west’s record-shattering heatwave, according to a conservation group that has documented the disturbing sight.

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Writer Seth Klein on the climate emergency

27/07/21

Author:

On the Coast - CBC Radio

Link:

On the Coast - CBC Radio

Seth Klein is the author of A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency. He is also the team lead and director of strategy with the David Suzuki Institute's Climate Emergency Unit.

Aired: July 26, 2021

Listen here.

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British Columbia

Climate Change

Social

B.C. wildfires now burning ten times more than in 1990s

27/07/21

Author:

Barry Saxifrage

Link:

National Observer

The most extreme wildfires in B.C. are now creating their own weather. Photo by NASA Earth Observatory

July 27th 2021

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Rio Tinto smelter workers go on strike in Kitimat, B.C.

26/07/21

Author:

CBC News

Link:

CBC News

Jul 25, 2021

Unifor Local 2301 said 72-hour strike notice issued after nearly 7 weeks of talks

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The Silence of the Dams: Canada’s Faux-Green Genocide

24/07/21

Author:

Matthew Behrens

Link:

Homes Not Bombs

July 23, 2021

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Speech for Socialist Action Webinar

24/07/21

Author:

Gene McGuckin, Member of the Vancouver Ecosocialists

We are part of nature: hundreds of people died while a billion tidal sea creatures cooked in place.

After the Heat Dome Killings, What Is to Be Done?

Thursday, July 22, 2021

Greetings,

I am speaking to you this evening from the traditional territories of the Quay Quayt and Kwikwetlem First Nations in a place otherwise known as New Westminster, BC.

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B.C. is in a state of climate emergency with no emergency plan

21/07/21

Author:

Seth Klein

Link:

National Observer

As the crisis manifests, it’s time the provincial government gave its climate plan a reboot, writes columnist Seth Klein. Photo by U.S. Fish and Wildfire Service / Flickr

July 19, 2021

We mobilize to put fires out, but — so far, at least — not to prevent them.

British Columbia is having its summer of reckoning with the climate emergency. Like other places before — California, Australia, Honduras, the Philippines — the province in which I reside is now experiencing a shift in the popular zeitgeist. With a jolt to our collective consciousness, most of us now understand the emergency is well and truly upon us.

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British Columbia

Climate Change

Social

500 organizations in Canada, U.S. urge feds to stop investing in carbon capture technology

20/07/21

Author:

Cloe Logan

Link:

National Observer

old gas pumps - The signatories say carbon capture investment will only lead to more fossil fuel extraction. Photo by Harrison Haines/Pexels

[Editor: But this is what the BC Government is doing:

https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2021EMLI0050-001381News Release

Vancouver

Friday, July 16, 2021 10:20 AM

- "The centre’s initial focus areas for funding and project delivery will include:

carbon capture, utilization and storage. . . . . .etc !!]

July 20th 2021

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West Coast drought puts fish and forests in dire straits

20/07/21

Author:

Rochelle Baker

Link:

Times Colonist - originally from National Observer

Jason Hwang of the Pacific Salmon Foundation says the cumulative effects of climate change are causing perilous conditions for wild salmon. REID HWANG

JULY 18, 2021

Vancouver Island fish and forests are in greater peril than ever as the B.C. government issues widespread drought warnings after a record-breaking heat wave and an explosion of wildfires across the province.

Drought is impacting much of southern British Columbia and the central Interior due to very low rainfall, exacerbated by the recent extreme heat wave, according to the province.

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British Columbia

Climate Change

Fisheries